White Chocolate Mocha Latte

Tuesday- Due to a correct prediction of rain all day Tuesday, we stayed “home” and worked with ArkWings instead of working on the trail with Wolf River Conservancy. Mollie, Norah, Alleigh and I repainted the bathroom in the main house a new cream color to cover up the other bright, gross yellow color there was. The room was not well ventilated at all, so we all got kinda woozy from being in there painting all day, but we recovered and feel better now! Yesterday was a sunny, but colddddd day here in Memphis. It was below 30 degrees and there were actual snow flurries falling out of the sky in the morning while we worked on laying another 5-ton layer of gravel on our new trail. We got done a little early due to exhaustion, coldness, and about a 2-ton lack of gravel that they need to order for us to be able to finish next week.

Mollie and I cooked dinner last night and it was a hit! We made breaded chicken strips, tator tots and salad, which everyone said was really good…yay! I told Nate that I am getting better at cooking and learning some recipes that I can use in my “life after AmeriCorps,” which he responded happily with “okay then, one day after you get back you can cook all of my meals for me!” That idea makes me very nervous, but we shall see how it turns out!

Today we worked at ArkWings, raking leaves from all 10 gardens around the house all day in the cold weather! We were super-bundled up though, so we didn't freeze too much!

I also wanted to take this time to clarify that I do actually like this round’s project, even though I seemed annoyed in my last blog haha. It’s just a long round and its been really cold while we’ve been working outside, so I think I’ve been slightly more negative in my reporting back about what we do each day, but trust me, I am still loving the AmeriLife and learning a lot! And not having internet at our house has opened me up to the life of Starbucks and all the amazing hot drinks they serve here…right now I am sipping on my new favorite beverage, a white chocolate mocha latte J So the mini road trip to internet a few times a week is totally worth it!

Oh, and we have been working out at the gym at Rhodes College here in Memphis. It is a beautiful little private Christian school that reminds me a lot of Gordon, but the campus is even nicer! All of the buildings are the same old stone on the outside and really nice and modern looking on the inside…I will try to take some pictures sometime so y’all can see! It was an adventure the day we had to go to their security office to get IDs so we could use the gym, because the printer machine broke while we were using it…but they were really nice to us and now we have awesome Rhodes College photo  IDs! I don’t know why I have such a fascination with photo IDs, but I just love them! Maybe it’s because I don’t have my license yet, so I feel the need to overcompensate with other photo IDs? Haha